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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 62% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 24 November 2085 at 10:02 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1944".
Cold Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2085 after 5 days on 1 December 2085 at 08:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 December 2085 at 08:10
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 December 2085 at 05:47
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 December 2085 at 22:38
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 23 December 2085 at 17:42
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 1062 / 2015
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1062 of Meeus index or 2015 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠271.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠271.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:37. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 10 November 2085 at 18:58 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 8 December 2085 at 15:54 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 369 952 km
This perigee Moon is 369 952 km (229 878 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2085. It is 7 444 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 404 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 19 November 2085 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 December 2085 at 07:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 19 November 2085 at 01:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.309°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.305° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 December 2085 at 23:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 1 December 2085 at 08:10 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
